Entire Garbage at Ghazipur Landfill Site Will Be Processed by December 2024, Says Gautam Gambhir
4 years, 3 months ago

Entire Garbage at Ghazipur Landfill Site Will Be Processed by December 2024, Says Gautam Gambhir

News 18  

East Delhi BJP MP Gautam Gambhir has claimed that the entire garbage dump at Ghazipur landfill site will be processed by December 2024, even as the environment committee of Legislative Assembly expressed displeasure over the speed of work. About 3,000 metric tonnes of legacy waste at Ghazipur landfill site is being processed daily. Atishi had pulled up the two municipal corporations for having no plan whatsoever to deal with landfill site fires and the resulting air pollution in Delhi, the committee had said in a statement. The 70-acre Ghazipur site receives about 2,000-2,200 MT of solid waste daily and about 3,000 MT on an average is processed, Gambhir said.

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Delhi govt’s 12-month timeline to flatten Bhalswa landfill faces obstacles
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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Delhi govt’s 12-month timeline to flatten Bhalswa landfill faces obstacles

Hindustan Times  

Environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa’s 12-month timeline for flattening the Bhalswa landfill faces multiple challenges, as the project started five years ago has encountered multiple deadline revisions and delays. Municipal Corporation of Delhi officials overseeing the project said that three landfill sites—Okhla, Bhalswa and Ghazipur—cumulatively held 24 million tonnes of legacy waste in 2019 and that progress of biomining the …

Chandigarh: Work to clear 3rd trash mountain at Dadumajra landfill begins
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chandigarh: Work to clear 3rd trash mountain at Dadumajra landfill begins

Hindustan Times  

After missing repeated deadlines, Chandigarh municipal corporation has finally completed the bio-remediation of two garbage mountains dumped at Dadumajra landfill, the civic body officials said on Thursday, adding that the work has already been started to process the remaining freshly dumped waste or the third mountain, holding a massive 1.25 lakh metric tonnes of waste, at the landfill. Even the …

Delhi poll: Landfill continues to haunt Ghazipur residents amid struggle for basic amenities
2 months, 1 week ago

Delhi poll: Landfill continues to haunt Ghazipur residents amid struggle for basic amenities

The Hindu  

Unfortunately, living near a landfill site has been normalised, said Ashok, a Ghazipur resident in despair. Ghazipur, a village on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, has become infamous for Delhi’s highest landfill site or garbage mountain, just a few metres short of Qutab Minar. Blame game During the 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi poll, Aam Aadmi Party’s senior leader and Delhi …

Ghaziabad: Civic body clears 31,713 metric tonnes of waste from Madhuban Bapudham site
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Ghaziabad: Civic body clears 31,713 metric tonnes of waste from Madhuban Bapudham site

Hindustan Times  

On the directions of the National Green Tribunal, the Ghaziabad municipal corporation has cleared 31,713 metric tonnes of solid waste dumped at the sewage treatment plant site in Madhuban Bapudham site, municipal officials said on Monday. “The corporation had been dumping its solid waste adjacent to the sewage treatment plant site for the past three years, and finally we had …

Gurugram: Waste processing halts at Bandhwari landfill amid admin delays
3 months ago

Gurugram: Waste processing halts at Bandhwari landfill amid admin delays

Hindustan Times  

Operations at the Bandhwari landfill, which handles solid waste from Gurugram and Faridabad, have been suspended for over a month due to delays in finalising new contracts, officials said. The Bandhwari landfill, which processes around 2,000 metric tonnes of waste daily and has accumulated 2.5 million metric tonnes of legacy waste, has created a 30-metre-high mound, locals alleged. “Delays in …

Legacy waste at Chandigarh’s Dadumajra landfill will be cleared by December-end, says Centre
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Legacy waste at Chandigarh’s Dadumajra landfill will be cleared by December-end, says Centre

Hindustan Times  

The work of bioremediation of entire legacy waste, which is dumped at the Dadumajra landfill, is scheduled for completion by December this year. Meanwhile, a third mountain, holding a massive 1.25 lakh MT of waste, has emerged at the landfill as a result of unabated dumping of unsegregated and unprocessed daily waste. In response to the questions, the ministry said, …

Ghaziabad: Pipeline Road solid-waste processing site faces saturation
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Ghaziabad: Pipeline Road solid-waste processing site faces saturation

Hindustan Times  

Ghaziabad: A solid-waste processing site at Pipeline Road near Jagjiwanpur has almost reached its saturation for fresh solid waste dumping, with the stack nearing almost 30 metres. The previous waste-processing site at Morta, Ghaziabad, had about 96,000 metric tonnes of solid waste, and about 92,000 metric tonnes was remediated. The new site gets about 1,600-1,800 metric tonnes of daily solid …

MCD calls bids for Phase-2 of biomining at Delhi’s three landfills
8 months, 2 weeks ago

MCD calls bids for Phase-2 of biomining at Delhi’s three landfills

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Biomining through trommel machines underway at the Ghazipur landfill site. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has initiated the process for launching the second phase of biomining legacy waste at landfill sites in Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla, officials aware of the matter said, citing the end of contract periods for the current operators. According to officials, three million tonnes …

Now, Chandigarh admn pushes deadline to clear Dadumajra landfill to December
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Now, Chandigarh admn pushes deadline to clear Dadumajra landfill to December

Hindustan Times  

After already failing to meet multiple deadlines, the UT administration has now pushed the deadline to clear the entire legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill to December 31. In the status report submitted to the green tribunal, the department noted that in May, nearly 430 TDP of the total 500 TDP solid waste generated in the city was processed. The …

Process to flatten Delhi’s landfills slowest at Ghazipur, fresh dumping goes on
11 months, 1 week ago

Process to flatten Delhi’s landfills slowest at Ghazipur, fresh dumping goes on

Hindustan Times  

An ongoing process to flatten Delhi’s three landfills is progressing slowest at Ghazipur, according to a progress report submitted by MCD to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee in February this year. The report said that of the 28 million tonnes of legacy waste at Delhi’s three landfill sites — Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla —11.9 million tonnes was cleared since July …

Biomining at landfills in Ghazipur, Bhalswa set to miss latest deadline
1 year ago

Biomining at landfills in Ghazipur, Bhalswa set to miss latest deadline

Hindustan Times  

The ongoing biomining project at two of the Capital’s three landfill sites — Ghazipur and Bhalswa — are likely to miss the latest deadline of 2024 to clear the sites, Municipal Corporation of Delhi officials aware of the matter said on Sunday. The civic body admitted that the three landfill sites still have 17.2 million tonnes of legacy waste, due …

Three more private agencies hired by MCG to remove waste from Bandhwari
1 year, 4 months ago

Three more private agencies hired by MCG to remove waste from Bandhwari

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has hired three more private agencies to process waste from the Bandhwari landfill and they are to set up processing units at the landfill within a month, said civic officials on Monday, even as the deadline to process legacy waste was extended to April next year from November this year. Kumar said they are involving …

Pace of work at Ghazipur landfill significantly slow, says Kejriwal
1 year, 5 months ago

Pace of work at Ghazipur landfill significantly slow, says Kejriwal

The Hindu  

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Ghazipur landfill on Friday and expressed displeasure at the progress in clearing the garbage mound. The Chief Minister said only 5.25 lakh tonnes of waste had been cleared from the site, against the target of 15 lakh tonnes announced by the Aam Aadmi Party after it came to power in the Municipal Corporation of …

Delhi government on track to clear garbage mountains: Kejriwal
1 year, 6 months ago

Delhi government on track to clear garbage mountains: Kejriwal

The Hindu  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that his government is on track to free the city of “garbage mountains” at its three landfill sites, a statement contested by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which claimed tardy pace of work at the Ghazipur landfill. Today, I visited the Bhalswa landfill site and I am happy to report that the work …

45 lakh tonne of waste at Bhalswa landfill expected to be reduced by May 2024: CM Kejriwal
1 year, 6 months ago

45 lakh tonne of waste at Bhalswa landfill expected to be reduced by May 2024: CM Kejriwal

India TV News  

45 lakh tonne of waste at Bhalswa landfill expected to be reduced by May 2024: CM Kejriwal Delhi: Kejriwal said Bhalswa landfill site has about 60-65 lakh tonnes of municipal waste spread over 72 acres, and besides legacy waste, 2,000 tonnes of fresh waste is getting added daily to the massive dump. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Bhalswa …

Present details on handling waste in dump yard: NGT tells Coimbatore Corporation
1 year, 11 months ago

Present details on handling waste in dump yard: NGT tells Coimbatore Corporation

The Hindu  

Even as the Corporation is nearing the deadline to clear legacy waste in Vellalore under the Coimbatore Smart City Mission, the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal recently directed the civic body to present the details of the machinery that need to be used and regarding permanent solution to handle the legacy and daily waste. The NGT Southern Zone, …

L-G reviews progress of clearing city’s garbage mounds
1 year, 11 months ago

L-G reviews progress of clearing city’s garbage mounds

The Hindu  

Saxena Delhi’s inspected the three landfill sites — Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa — and reviewed the progress of clearing legacy waste, L-G House officials said on Thursday. The L-G noted that the rate of disposal has increased to 8 lakh metric tonnes per month, the officials added. The L-G has directed the officials concerned to achieve the target of close …

Ludhiana: Second phase of legacy waste’s bioremediation to begin soon
1 year, 11 months ago

Ludhiana: Second phase of legacy waste’s bioremediation to begin soon

Hindustan Times  

With the waste accumulated at the Tajpur dump site of the municipal corporation moulding into a ticking bomb due to regular fire incidents, authorities are yet to initiate the second phase of bioremediation of the legacy waste under which around 20 lakh metric tons of waste will be disposed of in a scientific manner. Spread over 50 acres, Tajpur dumpsite …

From tomorrow, MCG to dump waste at new site in Bandhwari
1 year, 11 months ago

From tomorrow, MCG to dump waste at new site in Bandhwari

Hindustan Times  

A National Green Tribunal-appointed panel on Thursday asked the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram to expedite the remediation of legacy waste at the Bandhwari plant to ensure that they meet the September 2023 deadline set by the green tribunal. Gurugram, India-April 13, 2023: A MCG truck dump the garbage at Bandhwari waste treatment plant located at Gurugram-Faridabad road near Toll Plaza, …

MCD draws up plan to utilise cleared landfill sites
1 year, 11 months ago

MCD draws up plan to utilise cleared landfill sites

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has begun planning for the utilisation of 202 acres of land spread across the Capital’s three landfill sites, that it has committed to clear by December 2024, officials aware of the matter said on Wednesday. MCD aims to use the three sites at Okhla, Bhalswa and Ghazipur, when cleared, to set up five waste processing …

MCG misses another deadline, will send daily waste to Bandhwari
1 year, 11 months ago

MCG misses another deadline, will send daily waste to Bandhwari

Hindustan Times  

With even the extended deadline on March 31, for stopping daily waste dumping at Bandhwari landfill ending on Friday, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram is in a fix as it is yet to identify an alternative place to dump waste. Gurugram, India-March 31, 2023: The civic agency is preparing a two acre land near the Bandhwari landfill for dumping and …

Delhi’s garbage mountains will take 197 years to clear at current pace: Data
2 years, 7 months ago

Delhi’s garbage mountains will take 197 years to clear at current pace: Data

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Delhi is sitting on 27.6 million tonnes of waste across three landfills, a marginal decline from the 28 million 34 months ago, when it embarked on an ambitious ₹250 crore programme to clear the landfills -- a statistic that raises questions about the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s ability to complete the task in the next 16 months, the …

Waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur landfill shut for over 6 months: NGT panel
2 years, 7 months ago

Waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur landfill shut for over 6 months: NGT panel

Hindustan Times  

The only waste-to-energy plant at the Ghazipur landfill site has been shut for more than seven months, said a panel put together by the National Green Tribunal, ordering an enquiry against the concessionaire of the facility and asking civic bodies to consider temporarily diverting garbage from east Delhi and dumping it in the Okhla landfill. Ghazipur landfill The committee has …

Chandigarh’s legacy waste removal project: Firm makes lowest bid of ₹79 crore, MC to try to bring it lower
2 years, 8 months ago

Chandigarh’s legacy waste removal project: Firm makes lowest bid of ₹79 crore, MC to try to bring it lower

Hindustan Times  

The work on removing the second lot of 7.67 metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill is likely to start soon. A total of 12.7 lakh MT legacy waste is to be cleared from the 25-acre Dadumajra landfill in Chandigarh. In its second attempt at allotting the work, the municipal corporation on Thursday opened the financial bids, in …

Delhi LG conducts surprise inspection of Ghazipur landfill site
2 years, 8 months ago

Delhi LG conducts surprise inspection of Ghazipur landfill site

India TV News  

Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena on Saturday conducted a surprise inspection of the Ghazipur landfill site and sought ideas from people to help authorities raze the "unseemly mountains of garbage" in the national capital. Describing the landfill sites in Delhi as "grave health hazards" and a "national shame", Saxena on July 1 reached out to the people and sought …

Biomining of legacy waste, waste-to-energy plants among steps MCD taking to flatten landfills
2 years, 9 months ago

Biomining of legacy waste, waste-to-energy plants among steps MCD taking to flatten landfills

Firstpost  

Around 50 officials have been entrusted with the task of reducing the height of landfill sites and monthly deadlines have also been set up New Delhi: MCD has listed steps such as biomining of legacy waste and setting up of waste-to-energy plants being taken to flatten and shut garbage dumping sites in its status report on landfills which is likely …

A detailed history of the Ghazipur landfill
2 years, 11 months ago

A detailed history of the Ghazipur landfill

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi : The Ghazipur landfill site near the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border has remained on fire for over four days marking the first major fire incident on the garbage mound this year. A 40-year timeline of events: 1984 Ghazipur landfill site commissioned by MCD 1994 Okhla and Bhalswa landfills are initiated 2000 Municipal solid waste management rules 2000 — prescribing …

Garbage Mountains in Delhi's Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla to Be Removed in 3 Years
3 years, 5 months ago

Garbage Mountains in Delhi's Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla to Be Removed in 3 Years

News 18  

The mountains of garbage in Delhi’s Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla will be removed in the next three years. The North Municipal Corporation of Delhi has prepared a plan to eliminate these mountains at landfill sites by June 2022, South MCD by December 2023 and East MCD by December 2024. The problem of these garbage mountains in the national capital was …

PM Modi says ‘garbage mountains’ need to be wiped out
3 years, 5 months ago

PM Modi says ‘garbage mountains’ need to be wiped out

Hindustan Times  

While launching the second phase of government’s flagship programme, Swachh Bharat Mission, on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid emphasis on wiping out the “mountains of garbage” from India’s cities by processing all legacy waste. Dubbed the tallest waste mountain in the country — in 2019, before bio-mining began in Ghazipur, the mounds were as high as 65 metres, just …

Delhi's garbage monument to become taller than Taj Mahal by next year
5 years, 4 months ago

Delhi's garbage monument to become taller than Taj Mahal by next year

Op India  

India’s tallest garbage mountain in Ghazipur, New Delhi is on course to rise higher than the Taj Mahal in the next year, reports Hindustan Times. The Ghazipur landfill site has already accumulated over 14 million metric tonnes of garbage, pushing it to the brink of another massive environmental disaster. According to East Delhi’s superintendent engineer Arun Kumar, the pile of …

Ghazipur landfill: Despair over Delhi’s deadly rubbish dump
6 years, 6 months ago

Ghazipur landfill: Despair over Delhi’s deadly rubbish dump

Al Jazeera  

One year after a landfill disaster killed two, residents say conditions have not improved and affect their health. by Muhammad Aslam, local trader New Delhi generates as much as 9,500 tonnes of rubbish a day, saturating three main landfill sites – all of which have been at maximum capacity for 10 years. An official at the East Delhi Municipal Corporation, …

Ghazipur garbage dump almost as tall as Qutub Minar: Story behind Delhi's largest landfill site
6 years, 6 months ago

Ghazipur garbage dump almost as tall as Qutub Minar: Story behind Delhi's largest landfill site

India Today  

The East Delhi area is famous for being home to the oldest and largest garbage dump in the city. 8 metres shorter than Qutub Minar A recent report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment and Forests, while noting the observations on landfill sites in Delhi, said that the height of Ghazipur landfill site has reached as high …

Fire at Ghazipur landfill in east Delhi, none injured
7 years, 5 months ago

Fire at Ghazipur landfill in east Delhi, none injured

India TV News  

The Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi, which had partially collapsed triggering a fatal accident recently, caught fire this evening, though no one has been injured, a fire service official said. Five fire tenders have been rushed to spot and the firefighters are still trying to douse the flames, the Delhi Fire Service said. Senior officials are also at the …

The Ghazipur landfill collapses, another catches fire, and no one wants a dumpsite in the backyard. Where must our solid waste go?
7 years, 6 months ago

The Ghazipur landfill collapses, another catches fire, and no one wants a dumpsite in the backyard. Where must our solid waste go?

The Hindu  

A defiant mound — lush with grass as on a golf course — rises amidst 150-feet-high mountains of rotting garbage that constitute Delhi’s most infamous landfill, in Ghazipur. In an earlier interview, Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link, an organisation that works on waste management problems, had said that unless basic steps such as segregating waste at source were undertaken, it …

Ghazipur landfill collapse: Mere shifting of site won't end air pollution, diseases; scientific disposal only way out
7 years, 6 months ago

Ghazipur landfill collapse: Mere shifting of site won't end air pollution, diseases; scientific disposal only way out

Firstpost  

The locality where breathing is always a struggle and life only means a fight against deadly diseases. The Department of Environment said in a note on its website, “There are 3 landfill sites namely Bhalswa land fill site, Ghazipur land fill site, Okhla land fill site. In absence of availability of landfill sites, all the 5 Municipal Bodies are using …

Ghazipur landfill collapse: Crumbled part estimated to be just one percent of entire dumping area
7 years, 6 months ago

Ghazipur landfill collapse: Crumbled part estimated to be just one percent of entire dumping area

Firstpost  

The tonnes of garbage at the ‘over-saturated’ Ghazipur dump-yard which collapsed on Friday claiming two lives is estimated to be just one percent of the entire landfill. New Delhi: The tonnes of garbage at the ‘over-saturated’ Ghazipur dump-yard which collapsed on Friday claiming two lives is estimated to be just one percent of the entire landfill, a senior municipal engineer …

After Ghazipur mishap, EDMC to discuss proposed new landfill site with NGT
7 years, 6 months ago

After Ghazipur mishap, EDMC to discuss proposed new landfill site with NGT

Firstpost  

45-m high landfill at Ghazipur was saturated in 2002 only, and the civic body has been “looking for an alternative site New Delhi: Senior officials of the EDMC will meet NGT authorities on Monday to discuss about a proposed new landfill site on the outskirts of Delhi, the civic body’s mayor said. “A meeting is scheduled on 4 September with …

Dumping garbage at other sites not a solution, say experts
7 years, 6 months ago

Dumping garbage at other sites not a solution, say experts

Hindustan Times  

More than one-fourth of Delhi’s garbage will now be dumped at a new site in north Delhi’s Rani Khera from Sunday, after Delhi lieutenant governor Anil Baijal banned dumping of garbage at Ghazipur with immediate effect on Saturday afternoon. It is not feasible to take the garbage all the way from east to North Delhi every day.” “Considering there is …

Ghazipur landfill collapse: Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal bans garbage dumping at site
7 years, 6 months ago

Ghazipur landfill collapse: Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal bans garbage dumping at site

Firstpost  

Garbage dumping in Ghazipur has been banned with immediate effect and the landfill site is likely to be cleared within two years, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s office said. New Delhi: Garbage dumping in Ghazipur has been banned with immediate effect and the landfill site is likely to be cleared within two years, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s office said on Saturday. …

Ghazipur landfill: Delhi LG bans garbage dumping, site to be cleared within 2 years
7 years, 6 months ago

Ghazipur landfill: Delhi LG bans garbage dumping, site to be cleared within 2 years

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Garbage dumping in Ghazipur has been banned with immediate effect and the landfill site is likely to be cleared within two years, Lt Governor Anil Baijal’s office said on Saturday. The process has been fast tracked and the entire landfill site would be cleared within two years, it said. The East Delhi Municipal Corporation that manages the landfill …

Ghazipur landfill collapse in Delhi was a tragedy waiting to happen
7 years, 6 months ago

Ghazipur landfill collapse in Delhi was a tragedy waiting to happen

Hindustan Times  

The Ghazipur landfill site, a part of which collapsed on Friday killing two persons, should have closed down in 2002. As garbage piled up for years at this saturated location near Delhi border, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation did little to find an alternative. East Delhi Municipal Corporation officials say danger is not over yet as more parts of Ghazipur …

Delhi’s second waste to energy plant to start at Ghazipur this month
8 years, 5 months ago

Delhi’s second waste to energy plant to start at Ghazipur this month

Hindustan Times  

After delay of four years, the Ghazipur Waste to Energy plant will be commissioned this month. The plant at Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi was on trial run for the last two months during which it produced 10 million units of power by processing 1,70,000 tonnes of solid waste. The plant, which will use 1,300 tonnes of Municipal Solid …

Garbage from Ghazipur to help make national highways
8 years, 7 months ago

Garbage from Ghazipur to help make national highways

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Paving the way to tackle the mounting heaps of garbage at the Ghazipur landfill, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation tied up with the ministry of urban development and National Highway Authority of India to use the waste for the construction and repair of roads in the Capital. HT Image Initially, the Ghazipur waste will be used to construct …

Haryana told to put new garbage dump on fast track
16 years, 4 months ago

Haryana told to put new garbage dump on fast track

Hindustan Times  

The ongoing battle against dumping of garbage in Gurgaon received a further fillip on Friday. HT Image The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Haryana government to file a time schedule chart report about steps being taken for setting up a solid waste treatment plant at Bandhwari along Gurgaon-Faridabad road. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur …

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